The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic over the past two years has changed our usual daily lives and life habits that have had to adapt to different health, communication and economic conditions. The longing for better times without such restrictions and all socio-economic consequences has intensified, and the trend of nostalgia and memories of experienced events and emotions has become ubiquitous. This trend, as one of the main constructs of the paper, was studied in the context of mediated nostalgia. Taking into account the habits of media consumerism during the crises and stressful events, related concepts such as personal and historical nostalgia, media uses and gratifications, psychological COPE inventory along with the strategies of approach and avoidance coping were studied. Different motives for the nostalgic use of the media to cope with stress, first ran through a diverse cross-section of the scientific literature, and then were quantitatively analyzed. The online survey provided valuable findings on a sample of 569 respondents. The results indicated the connection between the use of the media and some forms of nostalgia, and the interrelationship between the use of the media, coping with stress and nostalgia. A crisis period like this enabled the development of new case studies, as well as the analysis of the relationship between people and the media on an example that could not be carried out so far.